{"id":55922,"date":"2019-08-13T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/?p=55922"},"modified":"2019-09-13T14:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:45:24","slug":"industry-now-george-kocis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/industry-now-george-kocis\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry, Now: George Kocis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\" id=\"cover\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-6 columns medium-offset-3\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2019\/07\/081118_MOD_03_069.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2669\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2019\/07\/081118_MOD_03_069.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2019\/07\/081118_MOD_03_069-1280x1708.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/i.mdel.net\/mdx\/i\/2019\/07\/081118_MOD_03_069-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/div>\n<div id =\"covertitle\">\n<h3>Industry, Now<\/h3>\n<h1>GEORGE KOCIS<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n.share-article .boxed-icon {\n    margin: 0;\n    display: inline-block;\n    font-size: 14px;\n    height: 25px;\n    width: 25px;\n    line-height: 22px;\n    color: #888 !important;\n}\n.single-auth {\nopacity: .75;\n}\n#content .row {max-width:100%}\n#cover {\nbackground-color: white;\nposition:relative;\nmargin: 0 auto 30px auto;\ntext-align:center;\n}\n#covertitle, #covertitle h1, #content #covertitle h3 {color: #FC0404;}\n#covertitle {\nposition: absolute;font-family:'Neue Haas Unica W01',helvetica,sans-serif;\nbottom: 12%;\nwidth: 100%;\nfont-size: 4rem;\nfont-weight:900;\n}\n#covertitle p {}\n#covertitle h1 {display:inherit;}\n#content #covertitle h3 {\nfont-size:3.4rem; \nborder-bottom: 1px solid;\n}\n#content #introbox h2 {display:none;background-color:white;text-transform:uppercase;text-align:center;}\n#introbox,#introbox p,.txtbox {text-align:justify;}\n#introbox {\n\tmax-width:640px;\n\tpadding: 10% 5% 2% 5% !important;\n\tmargin:auto;\n\tclear:both;font-family:'Neue Haas Unica W01',helvetica,sans-serif;\n\tfont-size: 1.2rem;\n\tfont-weight:300;\n\ttext-align:justify;\n}\n#introbox em {\n    border-top: 1px solid #efefef;\n    display: inline-block;\n    padding: 32px 16px;\n    margin: 16px auto;\n    border-bottom: 1px solid #efefef;\n}\n.introcredits {font-size:.75em;text-align:center;}\n#thumbs {text-align:center;margin:10% 0 3% 0;font-size:1.4rem;font-weight:900;}\n#thumbsul {margin:0 8%;}\n#thumbsul li,#thumbsul li a:hover {color:black;}\n.separ {background-color:white;height:40px;}\n.bottom {margin-bottom: 80px;}\n.txtbox {\nfont-size: 1.2em;\nfont-weight:400;\nwidth:36%;\nborder:0;\nmargin:auto;\npadding: 2% 5% 10% 5%;\n}\n.txtbox strong {font-weight: 700;}\n.txtbox p {line-height: 2em;}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"txtdiv\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"introbox\">\n<h2>GEORGE KOCIS<\/h2>\n<p>Portrait by <a href=\"\/\/models.com\/people\/ben-hassett\">Ben Hassett<\/a> for Models.com<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/models.com\/mdx\/tag\/Industry-Now\/\">#IndustryNow<\/a> The cycles of social media impel us to embrace then move on from trends and discourses faster than ever before. The life span of a single work\u2013\u2013an editorial, a campaign, a show, a stint\u2013\u2013is shorter for it. Fashion&#8217;s only unconditional term is the future: operating a year ahead, after all. So, in an industry where change and relevancy are the full stops at the end of every sentence, Models.com wanted to highlight individuals who add permanence to the community\u2013some at their start and some at their top. Photographer Ben Hassett gets up close and personal for Models.com with the creative forces often behind the scenes. They are the Industry, Now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since 1981 and its first exhibition with Horst P. Horst, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staleywise.com\">Staley-Wise gallery<\/a> \u2013\u2013 of its founders Etheleen Staley and Taki Wise \u2013\u2013\u00a0has helped exalt fashion photographs to their potentials as works of art. The Soho gallery\u2019s walls have since maintained that vision, mounting masters of the craft on its walls like Herb Ritts, Arthur Elgort, Lillian Bassman, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, David LaChapelle, Slim Aarons and other influential photographers. Staley-Wise\u2019s director, George Kocis, has acted as an arbiter of taste during his thirteen years amongst its collection, deciding which names meet the gallery\u2019s discerning criteria. Kocis, often only photographed at openings, is a man more frequently behind-the-scenes than in press, but a glance at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staleywise.com\/past_exhibitions.html\">exhibitions under his supervision<\/a> shows his judgement has helped shape an often disputed fashion-as-art opinion. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"txtbox\">\n<p><strong>Can commercial work be personal?<\/strong><br \/>\nCommercial work can definitely be personal.  Or it should be, right?  I would hope that a client is hiring a photographer to exhibit a sense of style and their own point of view.  Staley-Wise Gallery was sort of founded on the principle that photographers creating beautiful images primarily seen in magazines and advertisements deserved to be appreciated and valued as much as any other artist.  A great photograph is a great photograph, regardless of the context it was created in.  One of our jobs as a gallery is to continue to remind an audience of this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry, Now GEORGE KOCIS GEORGE KOCIS Portrait by Ben Hassett for Models.com #IndustryNow The cycles of social media impel us to embrace then move on from trends and discourses faster than ever before. The life span of a single work\u2013\u2013an editorial, a campaign, a show, a stint\u2013\u2013is shorter for it. 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